Life can be full of surprises. Some great, some terrible, and sometimes they happen on the same day. This is what happened to Kim, who was until recently three different people. An accident fused these three people together in a new, deformed single being. with a strange mix body parts of each of the three people she once was: part lion, part goat and part naga. She was horrified by the sight of it, but as long as the machine to reverse the process wasn't ready, she had to live like this. However, she had the necessary knowledge to work on said machine, thanks to having the minds of all three in her head, and took her fate in her own mismatched hands.

On her way she literally bumped into a engineer, a young snow leopard named Nurlan, who had four arms. At first he didn't seem to respond to her, but the mute boy explained in sign language he was born deaf. However, even in this deformed state, Nurlan saw something special in her. And secretly, the old man that was part her, full of regret that his focus on his work had left him ending up alone, didn't want to make the same mistake again. They arranged to have dinner together after their shift. Nurlan made her doubt if she ever wanted to turn back the way she was, as it seemed like this new life wasn't so bad after all, that the three souls in her were better off together like this. It was the start of a long and happy relationship between the two of them, and in the end Kim decided to remain as one, and received corrective surgery at the few points that were a problem for her.

This is a scene from the Starship Pioneer episode "the Chimaera", illustrated by  s7v8. Check out the original here!